HQ Trivia is actually back for real, just when we need it most

Remember when the only thing we were all doing online together at the same time, except live-tweeting reality shows, was playing HQ Trivia?

The massively popular trivia game announced its return on Sunday night after a year of ups, downs, cancellations, firings, and contradictory statements. In a single week in February, the CEO stated that the company was out of cash after a failed acquisition and would shut down, then four days later, announced that there was, in fact, hope.

(Hey, fun fact: February was last month. Yeah.)

On Sunday evening, a push notification announcing the game would return for a live event at 9 p.m. ET went out to users with the app still installed, and host Matt Richards confirmed during the show that the game would return each night at the same time. A report from The Verge quotes an anonymous source who says that the company has been privately acquired. Read more...

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